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  1. Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gs32+
  3. Newsgroups: alt.atheism
  4. Message-ID: <ofBcsRW00WB3MIZ1Me@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:40:13 -0500 
  6. From: Geoffrey Spear <gspear+@CMU.EDU>
  7. Subject: Re: Challenge to Agnostics
  8. In-Reply-To: <1992Dec21.162934.2439@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  9. References: <1992Dec16.030300.28523@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <ednclark.724898160@kraken>
  10.     <1992Dec21.162934.2439@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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  13.     No doubt he's been reading a bit too much Descartes.  Although
  14. Descartes was a great philosopher & mathematician, I don't think his
  15. observation that nothing but his own existance can be certain should be taken
  16. very seriously.  Sure, my sneses could be wrong, but an evil demon who
  17. constantly deceives me when I try to add 2 numbers?  That's a *little*
  18. silly!
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